Tag: America

President Demand Obedience to His View

http://news.yahoo.com/president-obama-demands-action-transportation-bill-student-loans-100034841–abc-news-politics.html  The President gets more specific today with his cynical assertion that the Republicans of the House of Representative are to blame for the grid lock in legislation.   This writer wants to state his belief that until today the President has been very selective whenever criticizing the legislative branch by always referring to the grid lock in Congress.  Granted, technically the Congress is the House of Representative, but for most ordinary people it refers to the whole branch and therefore lays blame on the majority party.  However, the facts remain that the blockage is the Senate with “dead on arrival” Harry Reid completely blocking all legislation from the House that does agree with President Obama’s personal directives to his Democrat henchmen in the Senate.  Yet, very good legislation of a myriad type has been passed by the House but stopped “dead on Arrival” in the Senate.  It seems to be that our nation is served by a President who constantly blames the Republicans for every ill and exonerates his own Democrat party for everything.  Today we heard more of the same, when Obama said that the White House and the Democrats in the Senate have done everything right on Transportation and Student Loans while it is the House Republicans who, Obama claims, bicker, back bite, and block progress.  I have come to the conclusion that whenever Obama blames somebody for something, I will look at the ones he excuses, including himself, and there I will find exactly the behavior he publicly and cynically denounces.  I guess that Obama regards the American people as stupid enough to elect him on a hope and a chance of change, and now he believes they will continue to believe whatever he says to be true, as true,  although the facts regularly indicate the reverse.

Nancy Pelosi is a Scary Clown

http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/20/pelosi-rips-holder-contempt-charges-i-could-have-arrested-karl-rove-on-any-given-day/#ixzz1yO8nVpcc  At least when she was House majority leader, The Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representative was scary.  I mean she is actually talking here about arresting a US citizen, an advisor to the president like Valerie Jarrett, and throwing Carl Rove in the House of Reps. jail.  I think that Ms. Pelosi misunderstands the historical purpose of the jail cell.  I believe it was for times of insurrection and civil war, when there might have been insurrection and chaos within the halls of the House.  It was not meant for the kind of power filled political revenge intimated here by the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House.  Has she forgotten the rules called habeas corpus?  Yes, Lincoln did suspend the constitutional rules involving habeas Corpus, but that was during the Civil War and only because Confederate spies and assassins were roaming the halls of the Congress, Senate and all of the public ale houses of D.C. .  Thankfully, the Hon. Nancy Pelosi is no longer the leader of the majority in the House and therefore, no longer Speaker.  Therefore this formerly scary person is just a clown.  Woe be to us if she ever regains the Speakership!!

Pope to visit Philadelphia 2015

s: What’s at stake in Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Philadelphia

    Jun. 08, 2012

By David Gibson, Religion News Service

Pope Benedict XVI leaves his general audience Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Nearly lost amid ongoing reports about the Vatican leaks scandal, Rome’s battle with American nuns, the American bishops’ battle for religious freedom, and the priest on trial in Philadelphia, was the news that, by the way, Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit Philadelphia.

Benedict made the announcement at the end of his visit to Milan on Sunday for the church’s triennial World Meeting of Families. The next meeting would be in Philadelphia in 2015, he said, and he planned to be there, “God willing.”

True, the trip won’t happen until 2015, and it may well not happen at all — Benedict would be 88 by then. Even if there’s a new pope in 2015, the City of Brotherly Love is still almost assured of getting a papal visit — new popes like to underscore continuity, and respect the plans their predecessors had in place.

In a larger sense, the visit would be about more than promoting family life, and in many ways it’s related to other Catholic issues now dominating the headlines. Here’s why.

It’s practical

Benedict’s only other visit to the United States, in April 2008, was to New York and Washington. One might think that he would want to visit the South or West, where the Catholic flock is actually growing, and to give those folks there a chance to see the Holy Father.

But Philadelphia is on the Eastern seaboard, and about the closest point in the United States to Rome. That’s no small consideration for a pope who has never been terribly vigorous and who now suffers from a painful arthritis-like condition that drains his energy.

The pope likely will face intense lobbying from U.S. bishops who want him to visit their diocese, too. While papal aides will try to resist such entreaties, another logical stop would be Baltimore — the “mother church” of all U.S. dioceses — and now headed by Archbishop William Lori, who has no small amount of influence in the hierarchy these days.

It’s pastoral

Philadelphia’s Catholics have been rocked by years of increasingly horrific revelations about sexual abuse by clergy, and the former head of priest personnel, Monsignor William J. Lynn, is awaiting a jury’s verdict on whether he will be the first church official ever convicted for helping cover up for clergy molesters.

Moreover, the Philadelphia archdiocese — one of the most storied and solidly Catholic in the nation — faces an unprecedented wave of closures and mergers, as well as a sobering $12.3 million operating loss for the last fiscal year. Philadelphia’s new archbishop, Charles J. Chaput, warned that those money troubles would mean a significantly downsized event — a papal rally of just 60,000 to 80,000.

Chaput said Benedict still wanted to go because of what it could mean to the city’s Catholics. “Philadelphia is in the midst of a very difficult time and I hope that (the 2015 meeting) will be a way of celebrating our commitment to be a church of the new evangelization that looks forward to the future with confidence and joy,” Chaput said after he appeared with the pope in Milan.

It’s personal

Chaput has emerged in recent years as a leading champion of the Vatican’s “new evangelization” as he uses his bully pulpit to argue forcefully for a strong Catholic voice in the public square.

Chaput has also undertaken a number of sensitive missions for Rome: leading an investigation of an Australian bishop who was eventually sacked for his liberal views, and helping to clean up the conservative, scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ order. This visit is a papal pat on the back for Chaput.

Will the visit help Chaput earn a cardinal’s red hat? There are no guarantees, but retired Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali would be 80 in 2015, making Chaput eligible — and appealing.

It’s political

Even if the trip does not come off, the image of Benedict standing next to the Liberty Bell or other icons the city of America’s founding freedoms dovetail perfectly with the bishops’ campaign for religious freedom, which they say is threatened by government policies like the health insurance mandate for birth control coverage.

The bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom,” which runs June 21 to July 4, consciously tries to link the Catholic faith with the American founding, and the prospect of a papal visit to Philadelphia drives the point home.

“It’s fitting that this gathering, which celebrates the cornerstone of society, will take place in America’s cradle of freedom,” Chaput said.

Media Undermines Supreme Court

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/only-44-percent-americans-approve-supreme-court-143823818.html  I can only come to one conclusion, namely that the writer and her parent organization intend to undermine the authority of the Supreme Court.  It is sad that in our day we are seeing the major vehicles for democracy instead undermining the very democracy that allows them to flourish.  The writer of this blog is a product of 1960’s and 70’s American education and popular culture.  Reflecting on it, I see that the key theme of that education and culture was to debunk the very society that was the foundation of freedom.  Lately, I am seeing a resurgence of that debunking, only this time, it is not the hippies and yuppies.  It is the main stream public press that has decided to hold American political and public institutions up for ridicule.  This, of itself,  might be seen as a core part of a free press, however, the free press is revealing itself to be extremely partisan and supportive of one political party over another.  I believe that the public media is constantly attempting to undermine anything in our society that could unseat Barrack Obama.  Not a conspiracy, indeed.  But, it is a culture of selective reporting and deep editing that allows the news organizations to portray, for instance, the US Congress as a blocker of the progressive Obama agenda.  However, the broad brushed phrase, “the US Congress” is an editorial against the House of Representatives while subtly excusing the Senate.  A cursory read would have us believe that the whole Congress is a do nothing institution.  However, the House of Representatives has worked very hard to make budgets and pass them, to formulate legislation and pass it and to attempt every day to act in response to the needs of the nation.  But each effort is stopped, stonewalled or declared “dead on arrival” by the Senate.  Significance?  House =Republicans.  Senate = Democrats.  Therefore the broad brush of the Press organizations blames everything on the Congress, seldom mentioning the achievements of the House and the total dereliction of duty by the Senate.  The cited article above in another form of main line Press and Internet attempts to influence public opinion against a branch of government, namely, the Supreme Court.  Why?  Because of the perception that the Court may find ObamaCare unconstitutional.  Therefore, let’s publish derogatory articles depicting the court as unfavored and out of touch so that people can ridicule the soon to be announced decision on the President’s “signature” legislation.  Now, even this would not be too bad, if like Fox network and others, the press explained that its reporting was actually propaganda and talk radio like opinions.  But when the media portrays its articles as factual and worthy of the title News, this writer feels they are being disingenuous. And that’s a memo!!

George W. Bush is not President

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/george-w-bush-favorable-rating-lowest-living-president-100010623.html  A piece of true trivia.  He is not President any longer.  He is retired and although I am sure he has influence, he has decided that the most important thing now is his Presidential Library.  I liked the man and I approved of his Presidency and under normal circumstances I would enumerate why I feel that way, I will not.  Why?, because the writers of articles like this and the survey behind them do not care to analyze the reasons for the respondent’s opinions.  What do you like and what do you not like?  Why do you like this or that?  What actions or inactions did you approve or disapprove?  All of these things are lost in this kind of report because CNN and the surveyors just measure popularity.  Do you like him or not like him?  Hey, let’s all be fair and admit that in our job or family or community or even church, that there are people who simply do not like us.  They may not know us.  They may not ever have spoken to us.  They may not know anything about what we think and why we think it.  But they do not like us.  It is like when we were children and there were kids on the block that everybody knew were not likeable.  And there were kids in the school playground that everybody knew were not to be played with.  And in the classroom, everybody knew not to talk to this person or sit at the same table with that person.  Childish? Obviously!  Sadly, such things among children can lead to abuse and bullying.  The young girl in South Hadley, Massachusetts, who committed suicide was a victim or being disliked because everybody knew that she was not to be liked.  We reject such thinking as dangerous for children.  Is it dangerous for a nation.

Snotty Washington Post Writer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romneys-faith-is-his-business/2012/06/04/gJQAdpGMEV_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions_Tue  Although I agree relative to Mitt Romney’s religion being his own business and it was written by me on this blog months ago, I really dislike snots.  This writer revels in his odious arrogance and is proud to stereotype, name call, and with a real intolerant attitude, to denigrate Mr. Romney.  However, I believe that it is just this kind of elitist attitude that makes writers like him and papers like the Washington Post representatives not of journalism but of intolerance and priggishness.

More USA Terror Killing?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-strike-said-to-target-al-qaedas-no-2/2012/06/04/gJQAyVeNEV_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines_Tue  Seems like the Obama Administration and the US military are becoming used to killing dozens of people in Pakistan every week.  No outcry from the UN or the Hague or anybody.  Seems to be terrible for Al Quaeda to attack USA but okay for USA to attack Pakistan everyday.  Look, I hate terrorists too.  I Love America.  But killing is killing.  That’s just a fact.